Status of Women committee  Okay. But just on that, we didn't anticipate that the governments were going to make the access by hours so high that people paying into it can't get it. My last example is that there was a women who worked at a Canada Safeway in Regina, Saskatchewan, a number of years ago, who

Status of Women committee  Having worked for a long time in a variety of areas, I'd say it's a question of what is voluntary. I may voluntarily work part-time if I can't find child care. That's my choice: I choose to work part-time because I don't have the other options. In fact, the studies we've done an

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I want to thank you on behalf of the more than three million members of the Canadian Labour Congress, workers who work in every industry from coast to coast to coast. I want to say as well that this is a very important issue. Employment insuran

Health committee  If I can begin, one of the things we would recommend to the committee is that if you want to look at the question of controlling costs and providing needed services to people, you really have to get into the national pharmaceutical strategy. That has to be there. Earlier I beli

Health committee  You can start with implementing 99% of what was in the Romanow commission. You could bring in a lot of those things: MRIs, the other--

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  The temporary foreign worker program is not working, for those workers who are being brought in. It is not immigration; it's exploitation. It's not working for the system either. As well, we have a number of workers who have immigrated to Canada who cannot get access to the kin

Health committee  Can I just add something there? Over a long number of years, the Canadian Labour Congress has proposed a system of training insurance under EI. We were trying to get some pilots going across the country to address specifically the question of aboriginal workers who may be in the

Health committee  We'll send you our document—

Health committee  Thank you very much. I'll try to stay within the five minutes. I know you'll keep me to that, but don't start the clock yet. It's started. Okay. On behalf of the three million members of the Canadian Labour Congress and their families, I want to thank the committee members fo

Human Resources committee  Okay. We need to see the bill, obviously, that's going to create this crown corporation, but we have some of those same concerns. We don't want to be in a position where questions can no longer be raised about EI because the government can say, “Oh well, it's over there that it's

Human Resources committee  What's our recommendation? Our recommendations are these. First of all, you have to include access. We have to extend the duration of benefits and the level of benefits. We have to get back to a system that works for the unemployed during their times of unemployment, whether it

Human Resources committee  The question, as I understand it, is what do we do about...? Well, I mean....

Human Resources committee  What we know is that women are taking time out to look after their children, or sometimes it's also taking time out to care for other dependent people in their family, which means they're out of the workplace. And if they've been out for a certain period of time, what you end up

Human Resources committee  Can I remind people, too, that there is a really good study by Monica Townson and Kevin Hayes, which was done for Status of Women Canada, about the question of women and EI. It's an excellent study, and it gives you a lot of the background.